Peter Pan: or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up: A Fantasy in Five Acts

8 best books like Peter Pan: or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up: A Fantasy in Five Acts (J.M. Barrie): One, No One and One Hundred Thousand, R.U.R., Unnatural Death, The History of Mr. Polly, Mother Courage and Her Children, The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time: Poems, Our Day Out

One, No One and One Hundred Thousand

Author	Luigi Pirandello
ISBN	0941419746

The great Pirandello's (1867-1936) 1926 novel, previously published here in 1933 in another translation, synthesizes the themes and personalities that illuminate such dramas as Six Characters in Search of an Author.

Vitangelo Moscarda ``loses his reality'' when his wife cavalierly...

R.U.R.

Author	Karel Čapek
ISBN	0486419266

R.U.R.--written in 1920--garnered worldwide acclaim for its author and popularized the word "Robot." Mass-produced, efficient and servile labor, Čapek's Robots remember everything, but lack creative thought, and the Utopian life they provide ultimately lacks meaning. When the Robots revolt,...

Unnatural Death

Author	Dorothy L. Sayers
ISBN	0061043583

The wealthy Agatha Dawson is dead--a trifle sooner than expected--but there are no apparent signs of foul play. Lord Peter Wimsey, however, senses that something is amiss and refuses to let the case rest--even without any clues or leads. Suddenly, he is faced with another murder: Agatha's maid. Can...

The History of Mr. Polly

Author	H.G. Wells
ISBN	0141441070

Welcome to Alfred Polly's mid-existence crisis. That's where we meet him, then we backtrack from his infancy through his life up to what might just be a fresh-starting point...

"...filled him with a vague and mystical happiness that he had no words, even mispronounceable words, to express."...

Mother Courage and Her Children

Author

Bertolt Brecht

Widely considered one of the great dramatic creations of the modern stage, "Mother Courage and Her Children" is Bertolt Brecht's most passionate and profound statement against war. Set in the seventeenth century, the play follows Anna Fierling -- "Mother Courage" -- an itinerant trader, as she pulls...

The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers

Author	Harry Bernstein
ISBN	0345495802

There are places that I have never forgotten. A little cobbled street in a smoky mill town in the North of England has haunted me for the greater part of my life. It was inevitable that I should write about it and the people who lived on both sides of its "Invisible Wall."

The narrow street where Harry...

The Kingdom of Ordinary Time: Poems

Author	Marie Howe
ISBN	0393041999

The Kingdom of Ordinary Time, Marie Howe, 68pp. We need more poetry, all of us. Buy this little book.

My Mother's Body

Bless my mother's body, the first song of her beating
heart and her breathing, her voice, which I could dimly hear,

grew louder. From inside her body I heard...

Our Day Out

Author	Willy Russell
ISBN	0435233017

Kitchen sink realism with appropriately-tuned bathos. A disaffected remedial class are taken away from school on a reward trip. Entertaining ensuing chaos is intertwined with the conflicting pedagogy of two supervising teachers. Stock characters like the new teachers and Head Teacher are fitted...